When Did the Pandemic Start? Readers Share Their Memories.

I was living alone in New Mexico, where people I knew were dying of Covid. On March 24, I called my youngest son in Chicago and asked if I could come and stay for a bit. He eagerly agreed, saying, “Sure, Mom, it’ll be like a pajama party.” I drove from Albuquerque to Chicago with […]

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For Black Mothers, Birthing Centers, Once a Refuge, Become a Battleground

Gabrielle Glaze felt scolded and shamed when she delivered her first son in a Birmingham, Ala., hospital, forced to observe strict rules about lying stationary through her contractions and enduring countless cervical checks from “total strangers” who seemed disappointed by her body’s progress. So when Ms. Glaze, 33, gave birth to a second son in […]

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Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open.

On a sunny afternoon in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a desk in an adjoining office. The ceiling fans were off to prevent the sheet music from scattering. The windows were sealed shut. East High is Denver’s largest high […]

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Baby Formula Plant That Shut Down and Fueled Crisis Restarts Production

Abbott Nutrition, the company that fueled a national shortage of baby formula when it shut down a leading production plant in February because of contamination concerns, said on Saturday that the site has restarted producing EleCare and other formulas. The restarting of the plant in Sturgis, Mich., which was the result of an agreement with […]

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A New Covid Testing Model Aims to Spare Students From Quarantine

When the schools in Marietta, Ga., opened their doors on Aug. 3, the highly contagious Delta variant was sweeping across the South, and children were not being spared. By Aug. 20, 51 students in the city’s small school district had tested positive for the coronavirus. Nearly 1,000 others had been flagged as close contacts and […]

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What Parents Need to Know About the C.D.C.’s Covid School Guidelines

But the variant may fuel outbreaks in unvaccinated communities and populations. “We are vaccinating more people every day, but we are not on a trajectory to be able to interrupt transmission by the fall,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, a pediatric infectious disease specialist in Colorado. “Unless we can do that, just about everyone I know […]

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Disenfranchised Grief in a Year of Pandemic Losses

A Cancer Diagnosis During Lockdown Lockdowns had an immediate financial impact on Annabelle Gurwitch, a Los Angeles writer who lost assignments and speaking engagements. The promotion for her new book, “You’re Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility,” has gone virtual. But it was when her child’s graduation from Bard College moved online that she found […]

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